AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7932, 4 January 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE CASE OF MALOUF. Received January 3, 11 p.m. SYDNEY, January 3. Th® Syrian Malouf was to have gone to New Zealand by the Manuka in accordance with the dictum of the Minister for External Affair# that he must leave Australia, but just before the steamer sailed Malouf informed the authorities that he intended to stay and fight the matter out. Mnlouf is an accredited American citizen by residence conditions, and he waa educated there. Had he left the State the American Consul would have entered a formal protest aganst the deportation of an American citizen. Malouf's unole, who is a very wealthy resident of Sydney, intends to take his nephews case up before the courts of the Empire. The Prime Minister's explanation puts a different complexion on the case. Malouf was only granted a permit to remain for a year to wind up some business of his mother's. He appealed for an extension and the American Consul supported his application, a filming that he would guarantee his departure at the expiry of the extended period. When the time came, however, Malouf asked to be allowed to stay permanently, but the Government was inexorable. . LABOURERS ON STRIKE. Received January 3, 8.30 a.m. SYDNEY, January 3. Without warning the grain labourers struck for an increase of 3d per hour in pay. The demand has been conceded pending a conference being held. DROUGHT BROKEN UP. SYDNEY, January 3 The 12 months' drought in the Solomon Islands has broken up. CHARGE OF SCREENING A , MURDERER.' PERTH, January 3. A man named Phillips has been arrested on a charge of screening a murderer at Singapore. The accused has been remanded for extradition'. THE S7NDAY ISLAND . MASSACRE. ' PORT DARWIN, January 3. All the bodies of the men composing Mr Bradehaw's party have been recovered greatly mutilated. They were evidently murdered and then thrown overboard from the launch.

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